With two films about the Indonesian genocide, the Oscar-nominated ‘The Act of Killing’ and this month’s ‘The Look of Silence,’ director Joshua Oppenheimer — aided by an anonymous codirector — shines light on an unspeakable tragedy

In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. Years passed with no arrest, and now Nick Hillary, a former college soccer coach and an ex-boyfriend of Phillips’s mother, awaits trial on a murder charge. But Hillary and a vocal group of supporters say that he has been wrongfully accused.

Studios, you get a lot of well-deserved flak for all the self-congratulation you generously dole out to yourselves, with September to March pretty much reserved for nothing but back-patting. But sometimes you earn it, and today is one of those times.

Bill Simmons visits Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan as they train for the World Cup to discuss the evolution of women’s soccer, how playing many sports at a young age helped them excel in soccer, and what you can do to help them bring the World Cup home.

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